Historical information:&nbspThese materials were collected by Virginia Dawson in Assam, India, beginning in 2015 during her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. Tiwa is spoken in Assam and Meghalaya, India. The 2001 census lists the number of speakers as 27,100 (out of 131,000 ethnic Tiwas). Most Tiwa speakers live in the Karbi hills; Tiwas that live in the plains generally speak Assamese. These materials were collected in Umswai, Karbi Anglong district, Assam.

Description:&nbspField notes from June/July 2016 trip to Umswai, consisting of two primary data notebooks and an elicitation planning notebook. These notes correspond to the recordings in the 2016 Elicitation Sessions folder.

Description:&nbspAudio recordings of elicitation sessions in July-August 2017 field trip. (In)definites, disjunction, quantifier float, scrambling, and number marking. File names provide date (YYYYMMDD) and consultant initials. All recordings made in Umswai, Assam. These recordings correspond to the data field notes in the 2017 Field Notes bundle.

Description:&nbspField notes from July/August 2017 trip to Umswai, consisting of two primary data notebooks (PDFs) and a text document containing more detailed contexts used in semantic elicitation (which are not fully written out in the data books). These notes correspond to the recordings in the 2017 Elicitation Sessions folder.

Description:&nbspAudio recordings of elicitation sessions during July 2018. Extensive documentation of disjunction, indefinites, comparatives, discontinuous DPs, attitude reports, and a variety of other topics. File names provide date (YYYYMMDD) and consultant initials. All recordings made in Umswai, Assam. These recordings correspond to the dated field notes in the 2018 Field Notes bundle.